Course: Blockchain & Innovation for digital society

General

Welcome address and start-up presentation

08:30, Monday, 7^th June - Welcome address

10:15, Monday, 7^th June - Start-up presentation

Virginie Delplanque - French Tech One File
Virginie Delplanque is 15 years experienced in international Management, Innovation and Communications.
After her Master's degree in Information and Communications Sciences at Sorbonne Paris Nord University in 2006, she developed an international career, starting in Paris as PR Consultant (2006-2008), then in London as Conference Producer and Market Research Analyst (2008-2011), in San Francisco as Business Development and Marketing Director (2011-2014) and then in Lyon as Managing Director at La French Tech One Lyon St Etienne (2015-2021).
She is passionate about human centered design and projet that have a réal âne positiv impact on société.
César Vial - Kresus File
Kresus is first and foremost the story of two friends who met at school nearly 13 years ago.
César Vial started his career in the energy renovation of buildings after a double degree in business and engineering. Having noticed a strong seasonality in his cash flow, he sent an excel file to his customers recording daily discount rates when his company needed cash. César sent the same file template to his suppliers when he was in excess of cash position in order to significantly increase his margins while offering an early collection option to his suppliers. Despite its artisanal formalism, the adoption of this practice was at the heart of his discussions with his lifelong friend.
Haris Mebarki, Former Finance Manager from the banking world, Haris decided to discover the corporate world by joining an international consulting firm in Geneva as the CFO's right-hand man. At the beginning of 2020, in the midst of lockdown, they decided to start the Kresus adventure together with the objective of disintermediating the financing and investment of corporate cash flow through early payment and discounting.
Geoffrey Guilly - Aitenders File
My inner motivation is to find innovative ways, leverage technology & exciting people to solve global problems.
As co-founder of Aitenders, the goal is to help public autorities and respondant to be more efficient in their tender management/response process, helping them through the entire lifecycle of the project. Having a very efficient public procurement and contract management process in place can release productivity up to 1% of world GDP.
Still looking for state budget to solve global problems? Helping as well entrepreneurs/ start-up/scale up to succeed intenationnally, discover and guide them in their international development within the French Trade Advisors network.
Bilal El Alamy - Equisafe File
Bilal El Alamy graduated in physics, applied mathematics and a Business School. He has worked in the field of research, in the industry and as a digital strategy consultant at Accenture.
After winning a competition organized by Edmond de Rothschild at ESCP Business School during his studies, Bilal co-founded Equisafe where he has been acting as CEO for the past year and a half.

Established in 2019, Equisafe's mission is to facilitate transactions and create investment opportunities accessible at scale, anytime, anywhere.
Equisafe aims to reshape transaction services and financial information sharing by developing a multi-service platform that will serve as an innovative technical support for capital market investments while focusing on simplifying and accelerating the private equity investment process.
The platform now gives companies the opportunity to have more transparency to their investors through a portal to track each position in real time with a user-friendly service to manage the associated corporate events.
Avinash Pathare - iExec and Confidential Computing File
Avinash is an International business developer apprentice, joining the marketing and business development team of iExec in september 2020. Before doing one internship with iExec during the first half of 2020, he was working in the IT domain for 3 years and have knowledge in new technologies and IT domain in the international market. He is now joining iExec as an apprentice.
iExec is inventing the internet of the future by developing the first Blockchain-based, fully distributed cloud computing platform. It's White Paper offers a detailed description of iExec’s vision, the market, development roadmap and the upcoming token launch. iExec aims to provide blockchain-based distributed applications a scalable, secure and easy access to the computing resources required for their execution. It uses the blockchain to organize a market network where everyone can monetize their servers, applications, and data-sets.
Recordings of welcome session and startup presentation

Fundamentals of Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies

14:00, Monday, 7^th June - Omar Hasan: Fundamentals of Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies

How to master the Energy Impact of Blockchain?

08:30, Tuesday, 8^th June - Prof. Hans Reiser and Christian Berger (Uni Passau): How to master the Energy Impact of Blockchain?

Prof. Hans Reiser and Christian Berger - How to manage the Energy Impact of Blockchain File
Prof. Dr. Hans P. Reiser
Since 2021, the assistant professorship of Security in Information Systems (University of Passau) is under the direction of Prof. Dr. Hans P. Reiser. Starting 1st of January 2022, he will be a professor at the Department of Computer Science at Reykjavík University, Iceland. His main research focus is on reliability and security in distributed systems, including algorithms and architectures for intrusion tolerant systems, adaptability and self-optimization of reliable group communication systems, concepts for secure and reliable cloud computing, as well as methods for malware analysis and incident investigation in cloud environments based on virtual machine introspection.
Christian Berger (University of Passau) received the BSc and MSc degrees in computer science from the University of Passau, Germany, in 2014 and 2017, respectively. In 2018, he started working as a research associate and PhD candidate at the assistant professorship of security in information systems. His research interests include Byzantine fault tolerance, resilient distributed systems as well as blockchain and distributed ledger technology.
Prof. Hans Reiser Christian Berger - How to master the Energy impact of Blockchain (Part 1)
Prof. Hans Reiser Christian Berger - How to master the energy impact of blockchain (Part 2)

Implications of Platform Economy for Business Models

10:15, Tuesday, 8^th June - Roland Wossidlo (ATOS International): Implications of Platform Economy for Business Models

Rolland Wossidlo - Implications of Platform Economy for Business Models File
Roland is Managing Director of Atos International Germany GmbH. In 2018, he was appointed Director Performance management in Atos Global HR. In his 41 years professional background, he worked in different assignments for SiemensAG, Germany and Dubai. He joined ATOS in 2011.
Roland Wossildo - Implications of Platform Economy for Business Models (Part 1)
Roland Wossildo - Implications of Platform Economy for Business Models (Part 2)

Business impact of blockchain or more generally, business impact of emerging technologies on ICT companies

14:00, Tuesday, 8^th June - George Darie (Modex): Business impact of blockchain or more generally, business impact of emerging technologies on ICT companies

Making Personal Data Portability More Effective in the Digital Economy: Is there a Need for Personal Information Management Systems and the Blockchain?

08:30, Wednesday, 9^th June - Prof. Jan Krämer (Uni Passau) - Making Personal Data Portability More Effective in the Digital Economy: Is there a Need for Personal Information Management Systems and the Blockchain?

Prof. Jan Kramer - Making Personal Data Portability More Effective in the Digital Economy: Is there a Need for Personal Information Management Systems and the Blockchain? File
Jan Krämer is a professor of Information Systems and holds the chair of Internet and Telecommunications Business at the University of Passau. He is also an Academic Co-Director at the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE) and a member of the European AI Alliance. Professor Krämer pursues an interdisciplinary research approach by combining theoretical and empirical methods from economics—predominantly game-theoretic modeling an economic laboratory experiments—with insights from computer science, psychology and law. His current research interest includes the regulation of telecommunications and Internet markets, as well as digital ecosystems and data-driven business models.
Prof. Jan Kramer - Making personal data portability more effective in the digital economy (Part 1)
Prof. Jan Kramer - Making personal data portability more effective in the digital economy (Part 2)

iExec a decentralized Marketplace for computing resources

10:15, Wednesday, 9^th June - Gilles Fedak: iExec a decentralized Marketplace for computing resources

Gilles Fedak - Building a Decentralized, Trusted and Privacy-preserving Computing Infrastructure File
Gilles is CEO & co-founder of iExec: Blockchain-based Decentralized Cloud Computing. We issued the RLC token (listed on coinmarketcap) and realized the first major ICO in France on April 19th, 2017, raising 10.000 Bitcoins (equivalent to 12.5 million USD) in less than 3 hours. iExec builds a decentralized market place for computing resources using the Ethereum blockchain. The first version of the product released in November 2017 allows Ethereum Dapps a scalable, secure and affordable access for their off-chain computations.
Before that, he was a permanent INRIA research scientist at ENS-Lyon, France (Homepage: http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~gfedak/). After receiving my Ph.D degree from University Paris Sud in 2003, he followed a postdoctoral fellowship at University California San Diego. He produced pioneering software and algorithms in the field of Grid and Cloud Computing that allow people to easily harness large parallel systems consisting of thousands of machines distributed on the Internet (XtremWeb, MPICH-V, BitDew, SpeQulos, Xtrem-MapReduce, Active Data, …). He co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific papers and won two Best Paper awards. In 2012, he co-edited with C. Cérin the Desktop Grid Computing Book, (CRC publication). In 2015, he received the Chinese Academy of Sciences PIFI Award.
Gilles Fedak - iExec a decentralized marketplace for computing resources (Part 1)
Gilles Fedak - iExec a decentralized marketplace for computing resources (Part 2)

Blockchain based reputation systems

14:00, Wednesday, 9^th June - E. Damiani, Y. Iraqi, A. Battah (Univ of Milan/Khalifa Univ.): Blockchain based reputation systems

Mir-BFT: High-Throughput Robust BFT for Decentralized Networks

08:30, Thursday, 10^th June - Marko Vukolic (IBM): Mir-BFT: High-Throughput Robust BFT for Decentralized Networks

Mir-BFT: High-Throughput Robust BFT for Decentralized Networks File
Marko re-joined IBM Research in January 2015, as a Research Staff Member (earlier, he was also a Post-Doc and Intern in IBM). Before that, he was a faculty in EURECOM, and a visiting professor at Systems Group @ ETH Zurich.
He obtained a Doctor of Science (PhD) degree in Distributed Systems from EPFL in the Distributed Programming Laboratory (LPD) in 2008. Before PhD, he graduated from EPFL Doctoral School in Computer and Communication Sciences in 2003 and obtained a dipl.ing. degree in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications) from School of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, in 2001.
Marko Vukolic - Mir-BFT - High-Throughput Robust BFT for Decentralized Networks.pdf
Marko Vukolic - Mir-BFT: High-Throughput Robust BFT for Decentralized Networks (Part 1)
Marko Vukolic - Mir-BFT: High-Throughput Robust BFT for Decentralized Networks (Part 2)

Blockchain ICT platform for assets and transactions management

10:15, Thursday, 10^th June - Ferdinando Bosco, Giuseppe Raveduto (Engineering): Blockchain ICT platform for assets and transactions management

Ferdinando Bosco and Giuseppe Raveduto (Engineering) - Blockchain ICT platform for assets and transactions management File
Ferdinando Bosco is an Engineer in Computer Science.
Since 2012 he works as Solution Architect and Researcher in Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Research & Innovation department. He collaborates to many Italian and European research projects in energy and media domain, as technical expert, and solution architect. In the projects in which he participated, he applied Agile methodologies and from 2017 he is a Scrum Master Certified (SMC) and in 2020 I achieved my DevOps fundamentals cert.
In the last years he specialized above all on blockchain technology, microservices architecture and container-based development. He is currently involved in many projects related to energy and blockchain topics. He is technical responsible for the Blockchain-based Platone Open Framework in H2020 Platone project and for the design of the OneNet Architecture in H2020 OneNet project.
Giuseppe Raveduto (BSc.) is an engineer in computer science and researcher in ENG R&D laboratory. He is currently working, with technical responsibilities, on EU funded research projects for the application of blockchain technologies in the smart-energy field which are the main focus of his research activities. At this moment he is the Technical Manager of H2020 BRIGHT Project. He is author of scientific publications presented at international conferences.

Ferdinando Bosco and Giuseppe Raveduto (Engineering) - Blockchain ICT platform for assets and transactions management
F. Bosco, G. Raveduto - Blockchain ICT platform for assets and transactions management (Part 1)
F. Bosco, G. Raveduto - Blockchain ICT platform for assets and transactions management (Part 2)